Improvement in feed-cups for bird-cages



G.- R. USB() RN & B. A. D RAYTUN.

Feed-Cups for Bi rrd-Cages.

Patented July 14,1874.

fa/f Q4 NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE R. OSBORN AND BENJAMIN A. DRAYI'ON, OF NEIT YORK, Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEED-CUPS FOR BIRD-CAGES.

Specification forming part of Leiters PatentNo. l 53,106, dated July 14,1874; application filed May 1e, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE R. OsnoRN and BENJ. A. DRAY'roN, ofthe cityand State ot' New York, have invented an Improved Feed-Cup forBird-Cages, of which the following is a specification The inventionconsists in a feed-cup for birdcages of peculiar shape, by virtue otwhich we are enabled to hang the cup on the inside of the cage withoutany device for holding the cup in place.

The habit of birds scattering seed from their cups is well known, andvery annoying. The old-fashioned bottle-cup#7 so called from itsresemblance to a bottle, with a feed-hole Iin the side, was intended toremedy this trouble; but, being hung on the outside of the cage in awire-loop, is open to the following objections: Liability ot' loop beingdisarranged` the few seed thrown from it landing outside of thecage-especially so with a close-base cageand its ugly appearance. Anornamental outer show-plate, and the hanging ofthe main part ofthe cupinside the cage, constitutes an improvement over all attempts toovercome the above tronbles.

In the drawing, Figure l shows a side view of feed-cup as inserted in asection of a birdcage; Fig. 2, front view,looking on the outside of thecage; Fig. 3, view of cup as seen looking at the inside of the cage.

A, opening left in the construction of the cage for the insertion of thecup; B, flange on the feed-cup, which prevents the cup falling inwardthrough the opening in the cage; O, feed-opening in the cup.

The flange affords a convenient means of handling'. By it the cupisinserted in the openingin the cage; the innerand under side of theila-nge hooks on the under bar of the opening; the lower and outer swellof' the cup resting against the illing or perpendicular wires of thecage, which holds the cup in proper position, with the feed-opening wellinside of the cage. The center of gravity is thrown so low that the cupwill retain its position at any angle that a cage will be liable to beplaced or turned in.

Ve do not claim as new a bottle-cup, a well-known form, hunger attachedto the outside of the cage as hereinbefore described, having long beenin use.

But what we claim as new and of our invention is- The pear-shapedfeed-bottle having the retaining-flange B and feed-opening O, andadapted to hang within the cage substantially as described.

GEORGE R. OSBORN. BENJ. A. DRAYTON.

Witnesses:

C. E. HEGOX, ALVAN DRAYTON.

